by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley More Merit Council Politics The Merry-Go-Round that has become the former Sheriff’s Merit (Political) Council has finally held its hearing on the Martha Dooley case. Two former sheriffs were cross-examined; Tim Hutchison and Jimmy “JJ” Jones....
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Knoxville Catholic faced the ultimate challenge in the Final Four of the TSSAA’s Division II-AA BlueCross Basketball Championships this season. If the Irishmen were going to send longtime head coach Mike Hutchens out a winner in his final game, they...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee had gone Republican in both the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. Volunteer State Democrats had been especially shocked when Adlai Stevenson had lost Tennessee in 1956 as home-state U. S. senator Estes Kefauver had been the vice...
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By Ken Lay Bearden High School girls basketball coach Justin Underwood couldn’t hide his happiness Wednesday night. And who could blame him? Underwood saw his team cruise to the Region 2-4A Championship with a 56-27 victory over Kingston Pike rival Farragut before a...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I wish Vladimir Putin could have seen the video and heard the heartbreaking cries of anguish from the mother in Ukraine as she followed her six-year-old daughter into the emergency room where she died, killed by...
